Hello all,
This may not be the right place to post but I will try here first. I have a keno game. Every hit plays a sound (as well as every miss). I have found that on the games fastest speed of play these sounds play really close together and the sound that they product is about twice as loud at the initial volume. I have a 2 channel sound chip and I am using 16 software channels. I am guessing that because of the closness in play and the fact that the sounds are the same that somehow the system is amplifing the sounds.
The question I have is there a way that I can cap or limit or even stop the sound amplification? I am using Linux (FC4), on a 2.0GHX cpu, and not sure of the sound card but it works fine in Linux. I am using SDL, SDL_image and SDL_mixer.
As you probably can tell I am not a sound guy so please forgive any terms that might be used incorrectly. If this is the wrong place to ask this then can you please direct me to a better location.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Walt.
You might try limiting the number of sounds that are being played at
once. If you don’t want to delay the game waiting for the sounds to
play in sequence, you could keep a counter of them. Increment every
time you start playing a sound, decrement it either when a sound is
finished or perhaps with a 1/4 or 1/2 second timer tick, and if it’s
over a threshold value just skip playing additional hit/miss sounds.
I haven’t gone into much detail using SDL_mixer myself, but I believe
it can let you know when a channel is done playing. There’s some good
documentation (for the minimal use I needed this for at work) here:
http://jcatki.no-ip.org/SDL_mixer/SDL_mixer.html
-JustinOn 4/2/07, Walt Crowley wrote:
Hello all,
This may not be the right place to post but I will try here first. I have
a keno game. Every hit plays a sound (as well as every miss). I have found
that on the games fastest speed of play these sounds play really close
together and the sound that they product is about twice as loud at the
initial volume. I have a 2 channel sound chip and I am using 16 software
channels. I am guessing that because of the closness in play and the fact
that the sounds are the same that somehow the system is amplifing the
sounds.
The question I have is there a way that I can cap or limit or even stop the
sound amplification? I am using Linux (FC4), on a 2.0GHX cpu, and not sure
of the sound card but it works fine in Linux. I am using SDL, SDL_image and
SDL_mixer.
As you probably can tell I am not a sound guy so please forgive any terms
that might be used incorrectly. If this is the wrong place to ask this then
can you please direct me to a better location.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Walt.
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